Back on Monday this week, New Advent reported that they had an "exclusive" report of Archbishop Gomez' appointment ot LA. That was false. We'd reported it on Sunday Morning, and a lot of people saw it in happy hours of the Easter Feast. It was a festive occasion.
Well, it's been a few days since we found out that the next Archbishop of Los Angeles was going to be Msgr Gomez, and it's been a few days since we made the announcement here in confirmation of American Papist's forewarning that an appointment would be named "some time at the end of February". It's alright that a few other groups made the claim to an "exclusive" coverage and didn't mention us -- but it would be nice if some of the Seminary faculty resign as they promised they would do if a "conservative" were assigned to LA. At any rate, those guys who claim they got the scoop are neocatholics anyway. They didn't even make mention of a report that Archbishop Gomez doesn't use Eucharistic Monsters. In our announcement, we made some mention of Cardinal Mahony's controversial attacks on Tradition and compared and contrasted that with the much milder and "Traditionalist friendly" incoming Archbishop Gomez. We also made mention of the fact that Cardinal Gomez doesn't complain about the vocations shortage, he does something about it, like get the women out of the sanctuary and get men into the Seminary. We later learned that he has more than 100 Seminarians according to Harlequin King who sings in the Cathedral Schola.
The other neocatholic folks might not have appreciated our mention of Cardinal Mahony's planned wreckovation of St. Barbara's Parish, which now may be put indefinitely on hold, we hope, now that there's a new Sheriff in LA.
Our neocatholic friends didn't mention these details in their reports. We don't blame them so much for stealing our scoop, but we blame them chiefly for not drawing attention to some very interesting highlights we mentioned above like the Bishop's love of Vocations and promotion of the same, and Cardinal Mahony's detestable wreckovation, or the fact that Archbishop Gomez, who is in Opus Dei, tries to control the Universities in his See, horrible we know.
Sure, Rocco wanted to talk about Cardinal Mahony's marching around with Cesar Chavez. To his credit, we didn't get the impression that Rocco thought that was a good thing or a bad thing. But Rocco didn't say that Cardinal Mahony had bad labor relations and that depriving a worker of his just wage isn't the only sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. He just reported it matter of factly and we're grateful for it, but no one mentioned the fact that this new conservative Archbishop has currently 100 plus seminarians in formation right now. That's the mark of Benedict there for you and we think it's great; hope you do too.
Finally, this news has been known to the seminarians since 3 years. Why no one bothered to tell us Cardinal Mahony was out three years ago is beyond me. It might have lame ducked him had we known, before the Motu Propio, that the grand dragon of Los Angeles was destined for a mercifully foreseeable retirement.
Anyhow, we reported this story before New Advent did. It's not a big deal, but it would have been much nicer had you neocatholics said something about the planned wreckovation and the awesome vocations record of our new LA Bishops.
Finally, we'll leave you with one of the commenters at America, complaining bitterly (perhaps too bitterly to be convincing) about the appointment:
Prepare for Tridentine 1962
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Apr. 06, 2010.
Prepare for Tridentine 1962 rites in a few of your churches. And he does not EVER let women serve as Extra Ordinary Ministers in his masses ...even if it is in your own parish ! Your liturgies will be scrutinized and your music reviewed. It's all about the patriarch. He does not speak English well and seems sensitive that he doesn't. He sees the collection as his - your archbishops appeal amount will be doubled as the amount or even tripled as to the amount he wants. His focus is on seminary, seminary, seminary. He also likes to think that he controls the Universities during political times (ex. St. Mary's University was rented out by democrat H. Clinton as a speaking location, after it was held, he spoke out against it.). Do not give up, just keep on marching !
Btw, we support and encourage the idea of logging onto alien and non-Catholic forums like America and posting satirical things.
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Why so surprised? Since when has transparency and Truth been a halmark of the opposition? Even those who pretend to be our allies?
ReplyDeleteGod bless the new Bishop. Thanks be to God for his Great Mercy!
Just looking for a little honesty and transparency and giving credit where credit is due, least of all in our case.
ReplyDeleteThese neocatholics don't like the reform of the reform. They dislike it even more than most Trads who dislike it do, but the difference is, most of them don't seem to know why or don't want to know why.
The author of one of the blogs related to New Advent is a known quantity from way back when he was putting together a Bishop's database online. He was absolutely hostile to Tradition and what's worse, he didn't want to understand.